Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of Charles H. SEABRIGHT

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical SOciety, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pgs. 254-255

CHARLES H. SEABRIGHT is a prominent resident of Wheeling, has been in
business in that section of Greater Wheeling, Benwood, since boyhood, his
vehicle and implement establishment is located at Forty-second and Wood
streets, and a deep interest in the welfare of the city and its people has
also brought him several positions of trust  He is a member of the Wheeling
City Board of Education.

Mr. Seabright was born at Wheeling, October 1, 1863, son of Henry and
Wilhelmina (Pappa) Seabright.  His parents were both born in Germany, but
were married after coming to Wheeling.  Henry Seabright was a butcher by
trade, and as a young man located at Wheeling and soon afterward opened a
shop on Chapline Street, between Thirty-sixth and Thirty Seventh, in what
was then the south end.  Her developed a very prosperous business and
continued it until his death in 1874, when he was about fifty years of age.
His widow survived him until 1885, and was about the same age when she died.
They were members of the Lutheran Church. After his death the widow operated
a grocery store at the old place of business for a short time.  These
parents reared three children:  Charles H.; Henry L., a contractor and
manufacturer; and Minnie, wife of Elwood Wilson, a native of Wheeling and a
mechanic now living in Los Angeles, California.

Charles H. Seabright was eleven years of age when his father died, and he
assisted his mother in the store.  Later she removed to a residence at
Benwood, know as "The Old Dovers Home," and there she resumed merchandising,
opening a stock of groceries.  In the intervals of his service for his
mother Charles H. Seabright attended the public schools.  After his mother’s
death he began dealing in buggies at Benwood, starting in this line of
business in 1886, and has been continuously engaged in the same line now for
over thirty-five years.  His business was first located at Benwood, but when
the old home was sold to the Sheet & Tube Company he removed to his present
site, in 1903.  Here the business has continued to grow and expand, and he
carries an extensive line of vehicles, agricultural implements, harness and
other supplies, chiefly for the farmers’ trade.

At the age of twenty-four Mr. Seabright married Miss Katie Delbrugge, of
Bellaire, Ohio, but a native of Wheeling.  They have a family of four
children: Earl, a bookkeeper; Bruce, in the automobile business at Wheeling;
Wilbur, an electrician; and Clyde, associated with his brother Bruce.  The
family are members of the Trinity Lutheran Church.

Mr. Seabright has never been so closely tied to his business affairs that he
neglected the call of public duty.  He served twice as a member of the city
council, and since 1913 has been a member of the Wheeling Board of
Education.  He has participated in the general program of the board’s
activities, and has cultivated as his special interest the matter of the new
high school athletic field, and the building of the New Island School.  He
is a republican. He is now serving as a member of Wheeling City Recreation
Commission, other members being Mr. Bundling, Roy Naylor, Ed Jefferson and
Mrs. Harold Brennan. This commission has charge of the playground and social
centers of the city, and as chairman of the Physical Educational Committee
Mr. Albright [sic] had charge of the improvements that have made this field
one of, if not the best athletic fields in the state.